PASTORAL CARE ANNOUNCEMENTS SS. & JOHN FISHER , ACHIMOTA P.O. BOX AH 283, ACHIMOTA-ACCRA Sacrament of Confession: Every Saturday 1. There is Bible sharing within mass this Website:www.thomasmorejohnfisher.com from 6.00pm to 7.00pm and every Wednesday evening at SJF at E-mail:[email protected](STM) [email protected] Sacrament of Baptism of Infants: First 7.00pm. Come and deepen your knowledge Office Tel: 030-3931800 (STM) 030-3939862 (SJF) Saturday of every month. Please call at the in the Holy Scriptures. Church’s office for a baptismal form. Rev. Fr. George Obeng - Appah (Priest-in-charge) Tel: 020-8592020 Instructions: Thursday preceding the date for 2. Parishioners who made pledges during Rev. Fr. Bright Elorm Fumey (Assistant Priest) Tel: 0245904620 baptism @ 5pm 2018 Harvest are kindly reminded to redeem Visitation to the Sick and Aged: Thursdays them. Pledges can be redeemed through WEEKLY NEWSLETTER at 7.00 am. Contact the office if you have a Mobile Money Number 0558362191. 9TH JUNE, 2019: PENTECOST SUNDAY sick or aged Person(s) to be visited. Receipts for such payments will be issued Sacrament of Marriage: Arrangements must later for collection. THEME FOR THE WEEK: O HOLY SPIRIT, FILL THE HEARTS OF YOUR FAITHFUL! be made at least six months to a year with the priests. The couple or one of them must 3. A parishioner requests the services of a READINGS FOR THE WEEK be a registered member of the Church for at young lady between the ages of 15 and 25 TODAY’S READINGS TH least 6 months. to stay with his mother at Cape Coast. She  Mon 10 JUNE, 2019

Consultation of Priests: (STM) Monday, would be offered training in a vocational 1st Reading: Acts 2:1-11 2Cor 1:1-7 Tuesday and Fridays (In the Evenings) Time: skills. Interested persons should be of good The Spirit of God gives energy to the apostles and Ps 34:1-8 6.30 - 8.00 pm. (SJF) Wednesdays at character and should contact Steve by call sends them out on their mission. Mt 5:1-12

5:00pm. In case of emergency, call on the or whatsapp on 0243240533. Responsorial Psalm:  Tues 11TH JUNE, 2019 Priest. LORD, SEND FORTH YOUR SPIRIT, AND Acts 11:21-26;13:1-3 Church office hours: STM - Mon. to Fri: 4. The Youth Choir presents chorale praise RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Ps 98:1-6 8am -1pm & 2 pm - 4pm: Sun: 9 am - concert dubbed JU-BI-LA-TE. Venue: St. 1.30pm: SJF – Monday & Wednesday 10am Thomas More, Date: 30th June 2019, Mt 5:13-16 2nd Reading: Romans 8:8-17 – 6pm; Sat 4pm-6pm; Sunday 12pm- 2pm Time: 3:30pm. TH The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are  Wed 12 JUNE, 2019 SUNDAY MASS 5. Parishioners interested in joining Sacred children of God and heirs of the Kingdom. 2Cor 3:4-11 Ps 99:5-9 FIRST MASS: 6:30 AM AT SJF Heart of Jesus Confraternity in the parish SECOND MASS: 7:00 AM AT STM should contact 0245956282. Gospel: John 14:15-16, 23-26 Mt 5:17-19 THIRD MASS: 9:30 AM AT SJF The Holy Spirit proceeds from the father and the  Thu 13TH JUNE, 2019 6. Our priests will be away from 9th to 14th Son, and teaches and reminds men of all that is NEXT SUNDAY: TRINITY SUNDAY June for their annual retreat. There will be true. 2Cor 3:15-4:1,3-6 Ps 85:9-14 no mass in the parish during the period. Mt 5:20-26 Singing Schedule: Reflection First Mass: Main Choir QUIZ The wait for the Holy Spirit comes to a close as we TH Second Mass: Youth Choir  Fri 14 JUNE, 2019 experience today the outpouring of the Holy Spirit 2Cor 4:7-15 Third Mass: Ave Maria Last week: On which mountain did Jesus’ in tongues of fire. In the first reading, the apostles Ascension take place? Ps 116:10-18 are filled with the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues Mt 5:27-32 Offertory and Bidding Prayers: understandable to many from different walks of life.

First Mass: St. Theresa Akan Kuo Ans: Mount of Olives The apostles in turn are prepared and vitalized for  Sat 15TH JUNE, 2019 Second Mass: YCW the ministry ahead. As the Spirit grants new Third Mass: Kopevi/Akweteman Comm. This Week: In which town were the 2Cor 5:14-21 language, it also justifies and bears witness that we Ps 103:1-4,9-12 disciples when the Holy Spirit descended? are the children of God and heirs of the Kingdom, Mt 5:33-37 reminding us each day of our lives of the truth WEEKDAY MASS taught by Jesus Christ. Today we experience the 16TH JUNE, 2019 QUOTE Spirit that blows where it wills, the Spirit that Tuesday 6:15am TRINITY SUNDAY prepares us for evangelization. Even as we pray for Wednesday 6:15am (STM) & 7:00pm (SJF) his outpouring on us, we pray that our wait in the It is the Holy Spirit’s to convict, 1st Reading: Prov 8:22-31 Thursday 6:15am God’s job to judge and my job to love. upper room with the disciples and Mary, brings us Resp. Ps: Ps 8:4-9 new tongues of love and truth, that we will be nd SLOGAN: Ss. Thomas More & John - Billy Graham 2 Reading: Rom. 5:1-5 unified in faith and love for God our Father. Gospel: Jn 16:12-15 Fisher: Besohwξ!

Ss. Thomas More & John Fisher.: Justice and Truth!!

Ss. Thomas More & John Fisher: Pray for

MOTIVATION PRAYER FOR GOD’S INTERVENTION IN KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR FAITH KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR FAITH THE LAW OF SUCCESS BY NAPOLEON OUR LANDCASE HILL Before you can secure co-operation from WHAT IS AN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL Before Damasus and the Western Almighty and Merciful Father, we thank you others; nay, before you have the right to ask for bishops had seen its full Acts they condemned for our faith and for the gift of our church or expect co-operation from other people, you certain of its proceedings at an Italian synod, community. We thank you for how far you Composition of General Councils must first show a willingness to co-operate with but on receiving the Acts, Damasus, so we are have brought us as a parish. You have been them. For this reason the eighth lesson of this told by Photius, confirmed them. Photius, our refuge in times past and our hope for course, THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN Papal Headship and Formal Elements of however, is only right with regard to the Creed, years to come. PAID FOR, is one which should have your Councils or Symbol of Faith: the canons of this council serious and thoughtful attention. were still rejected by Leo the Great and even We humbly beseech you to help us win back

It is the action of the Pope that makes the by Gregory the Great (about 600). A proof that our Land in this dispute. Save us from The law upon which this lesson is based, councils ecumenical. That action is the exercise the Creed of Constantinople enjoyed papal violence, discord and confusion and the evil would, of itself, practically insure success to all of his office as supreme teacher and ruler of the sanction may be drawn from the way in which plans of our adversaries. who practice it in all they do. In the back pages Church. Its necessity results from the fact that no the Roman legates at the Fourth General of this Introduction you will observe a Personal authority is commensurate with the whole Church Synod (Chalcedon, 451) allowed, without any For the Court of Justice we pray that you will Analysis Chart in which ten well known men except that of the pope; he alone can bind all the protest, appeals to this Creed, while at the give them the spirit of Wisdom and have been analyzed for your study and faithful. Its sufficiency is equally manifest: when same time they energetically protested against Understanding that they may discern the comparison. Observe this chart carefully and the pope has spoken ex cathedra to make his the canons of the council. It was on account of truth and impartially administer the law in the note the "danger points" which mean failure to own the decisions of any council, regardless of the papal approbation of the Creed that, in the fear of you alone. May they not yield to those who do not observe these signals. Of the the number of its members nothing further can be sixth century, Vigilius, Pelagius II, and deceit and acts of bribery and corruption but ten men analyzed eight are known to be wanted to make them binding on the whole Gregory the Great declared this council uphold the truth and let justice prevail. successful, while two may be considered Church. The earliest enunciation of the principle Ecumenical, although Gregory still refused to failures. Study, carefully, the reason why these is found in the letter of the Council of Sardica sanction its canons. The First Synod of May Mary our mother, intercede for us and two men failed. (313) to , and was often quoted, Constantinople presents, then, an instance of a may the defend us in since the beginning of the fifth century, as the minimum of papal co-operation impressing on battle. We make our payer through Christ (Nicaean) canon concerning the necessity of a particular council the mark of universality. Then, study yourself. In the two columns which our Lord and Redeemer. Amen. papal co-operation in all the more important The normal co-operation, however, requires on have been left blank for that purpose, give conciliary Acts. the part of the head of the Church more than a yourself a rating on each of the Fifteen Laws of St. Thomas More………. Pray for us post-factum acknowledgment. Success at the beginning of this course; at the St. John Fisher………….. Pray for us end of the course rate yourself again and The Church historian Socrates makes Pope observe the improvements you have made. All you Angels and …… Pray for us Julius say, in reference to the Council of Antioch The pope's office and the council's function in (341), that the law of the Church (kanon) forbids the organization of the Church require that the FINANCE CORNER "the churches to pass laws contrary to the pope should call the council together, preside judgement of the Bishop of " and Sozomen over and direct its labours, and finally Thank You All for Your Generosity. May God Bless You (III, x) likewise declares "it to be a holy law not to promulgate its decrees to the universal Church attribute any value to things done without the as expressing the mind of the whole teaching judgment of the Bishop of Rome". The letter of body guided by the Holy Ghost. Instances of

Julius here quoted by both Socrates and such normal, natural, perfect co-operation Sozomen directly refers to an existing occur in the five Lateran councils, which were ecclesiastical custom and, in particular, to a presided over by the pope in person; the single important case (the deposition of a personal presence of the highest authority in ), but the underlying principle is as the Church, his direction of the deliberations, stated. and approbation of the decrees, stamp the conciliary proceedings throughout as the FINANCE CORNER function of the Magisterium Ecclesiae in its Thank You All For Your Generosity. May God Bless You Papal co-operation may be of several degrees: to be effective in stamping a council as universal it most authoritative form. Councils in which the pope is represented by legates are, indeed, WEEK DAY 1st Wk 2nd WK 3RD WK must amount to taking over responsibility for its SUNDAY 1,297.00 712.00 57.00 decisions by giving them formal confirmation. The also representative of the whole teaching body MONDAY 2,276.10 200.00 464.00 Synod of Constantinople (381) in which the of the Church, but the representation is not TUESDAY 5,666.10 257.00 3,007.10 absolute or adequate, is no real concentration WEDNESDAY 1,730.90 410.00 185.00 Nicene Creed received its present form, the one THURSDAY 1,146.40 415.00 53.00 used at Mass, had in itself no claim to be of its whole authority. FRIDAY 5,939.40 1,227.00 + $500 100.00 SATURDAY 1,824.30 172.00 3,622.00 Ecumenical. 3OCTOBER BORNS 403.00 - - Total 19,903.00 3,393.00 7,488.10